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34 Cards in this Set
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Mercantalism |
1. Increase the wealth of the nation 2. Gain wealth at the expense at others 3. Export more than import 4. Colonies are for precious metals and raw materials 5. Support the mother country 6. Motivated Europeans to make more colonies 7. Colonies eventually hated it and fought for independence. |
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Calvinists |
1. Believed God already decided our fate 2. Started by John Calvin 3. Different names in different nations; English puritans 4. Motivated people to be more hard working to prove they were saved |
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Separatists |
Wanted to be completely independent from the Anglican Church not purify it. Supported clergy and lessens bishops power. EX: pilgrims of Plymouth
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Treaty of Tordesillas |
The pope worked with the monarchs of Spain and Portugal to divide the new world. The pope favored Spain so they got the better deal |
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Enclosure Movement |
Farmers began closing their farms to gain more food and wealth Lead to more people migrating giving colonies more wealth |
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London Company |
One of two joint stock companies given a charter from the king of England. Created Jamestown to bring in profits. Later known as the Virginia company. Didn't make a profit till tobacco, charter helped spread belief of self government. |
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Headright System |
Used by colonizing companies to attract settlers. If you paid someone's way you got a certain amount of land usually 50 acres |
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Puritans |
A sect of the Anglican Church wanting to purify the church. Settled mostly in America for religious freedom. The great Puritan migration of 1628-1640 showed that they actually cared more for wealth when they settled in the Chesapeake and Caribbean. |
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Bacon's Rebellion |
Wealthy man Nathaniel _________ led a rebellion because the natives kept attacking and they weren't fighting back so he gathered locals took over Jamestown and burned it down then died. 1676 |
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Quakers |
Created by George Ox and Margaret Fell group believed everyone was good and bad a Devine light. Got their name because they were said to "tremble at the name of the lord" |
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Toleration Acts |
When lord Baltimore established Maryland as a safe haven for Catholics they soon needed Protestants to make a profit but then the Protestants outnumbered them so this act prohibited religious persecution 1649 |
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Navigation Acts |
After the restoration Charles II made 3 navigation acts to regulate colonial commerce 1. 1660 on trade to English ships and must export certain things to England 2. 1663 all goods shipped to colonies must pass through England to be taxed 3. 1673 imposed costal duties and set up custom officials to enforce the acts |
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Dominion of New England |
Charles II tried to gain control of the slightly independent MA by takin NH from them. James II became king he made the New York and New England colonies this one thing. Sir Edmond Andros sent to supervise was killed after a revolution. First attempt at colonial unity England trying to gain control |
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Leisler's Rebellion |
A German merchant drove out English officials during the revolution in England. Eventually his revolution fell apart he and his son were executed. |
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Plymouth Plantation in 1608 |
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Jamestown |
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Mayflower Compact |
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"City Upon a Hill" |
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House of Burgesses |
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Indentured Servants |
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Roger Williams |
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Anne Hutchinson |
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Barbados Slave Codes |
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Royal African Company |
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Stono Rebellion |
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Anglican Church |
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Toleration Act of 1649 |
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The Great Awakening |
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John Peter Zenger |
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Scotch-Irish Scottish |
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Salem Witch Trials |
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Congregationalism |
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Halfway Covenant |
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Jonathan Edwards |
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